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Slumbering Giant


Slumbering Giant
Photo Information
Copyright: ToM Pelle (chiquito) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 445 W: 121 N: 522] (3416)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2002-02-21
Categories: Nature, HPP [Heavily Post-Processed]
Photo Version: Original Version
Theme(s): panorama-stitching [view contributor(s)]
Date Submitted: 2007-04-25 10:41
Viewed: 805
Points: 32
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Kia Ora Trekkers!
This is Lake Wakatipu the second largest of the southern glacial lakes! According to a Maori legend, the lake was formed by the burning of a giant which made the hollow. The resulting heat melted the snow and ice of surrounding mountains which then filled the long double-dogleg hollow.
The giant's heartbeat is said to cause the rise and fall every five minutes or so of the waters of the lake. Another explanation is an oscillation caused by differences in atmospheric pressure. :) Which one do you prefer?? :)

This photo is made up of 3 shots stitched together.
As you see the shots were made back in 2002 with an old Olympus IS-10 in auto mode! Finally i put the dust off and scanned them, then spent hours to blend the shots together! :) The PP contains: exposure compensation, levels, colour balance, sharpen and hundreds of other tools to get the final result!
I hope you'll enjoy it!
perryhooter, tibig, cstathoulis, ciore, kurekpit, gnc, shifty9 has marked this note useful
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Discussions
ThreadThread Starter Messages Updated
To wallie: PPchiquito 1 06-11 17:07
To perryhooter: photo stitchchiquito 1 06-06 10:28
To Dawn: flying around lake wakatipuchiquito 1 04-26 07:26
To tibig: ThXchiquito 3 04-26 06:12
To Timothy: ThXchiquito 1 04-26 05:12
To Noslo: large postchiquito 1 04-26 05:02
To ciore: Legendchiquito 1 04-25 18:34
To Janice: it's been awhile...chiquito 1 04-25 18:27
To hamperium: panoramachiquito 1 04-25 10:53
To carmia: precious landscapechiquito 1 04-25 10:46
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precious landscape, good colors and clearness. Good work!! Carme.

nice panorama shot
great wide angle and good colours
i like this good composed shot
tfs
M

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  • Noslo Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 222 W: 70 N: 117] (920)
  • [2007-04-25 10:57]
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Good job! Very nice view point, and very good job on the stitching. Too bad you could not do a large post of this photo.

Cheers!

Lars

Hi Tom!

This is absolutely beautiful. Such a beauty to look at. Great PP work. TFS

-Timothy

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  • tibig Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 657 W: 26 N: 681] (7565)
  • [2007-04-25 13:58]
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Very nice panorama, well done.
TFS
Tibi

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  • Janice Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3270 W: 270 N: 7711] (32868)
  • [2007-04-25 15:39]
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Kia ora to you ToM, good to see you. So it is 5 years since you were out here.
Good panorama from the 3 pics and well done on your patience and results,
Janice

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  • ciore Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 782 W: 3 N: 108] (2305)
  • [2007-04-25 17:19]
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hi Tom!
thousand years or ..hm..thousand miles!
So you're flyin' so farrr ?
gggreat !
i heard, that Maori folk is created 100 years ago by ethno-musicologists!
they did that,really! created culture from remained details :)
it's a job ... lol
But about your question..sure, i prefer the Maori legended one. i really love to believe in unbelievable things :)
And yeah.yeah.yeah. I enjoy. More than,
i even dream!
nice to see you again.
Good one pic.
Vik

Hello ToM.
Amazing view,great colours,DOF and POV.Well done my friend.Beautiful pleace.
Best Regards
TFS

* Piotr *

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  • gnc Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor [C: 738 W: 10 N: 104] (1449)
  • [2007-04-25 21:24]

Awesome perspective Tom! Excellent job.
rgds,
Cristian

great shot nice colours

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  • pozaru Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3534 W: 723 N: 2378] (18883)
  • [2007-04-26 5:31]

Superb panoramic view !!!

v

HI ToM,

A spectacular panorama! Beautiful colours & sharpness!

Very well done
Constantinos

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  • Dawn Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1139 W: 100 N: 3357] (17508)
  • [2007-04-26 6:53]
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Well Tom, we here have to believe in the Maori Legend of course! :-)

Excellent work on this photo with yr scanning and PP work.. well done.

I wonder where you were when taking this ?..flying ? seems to high to be up at the Skyline Buildings.

Queenstown is one of my Fav places.

Thanks for sharing this beauty

Best wishes to you and nice to see you.
Dawn

Hello Tom!


Knowing a bit about the extent of photostiching works. A lot of time consuming works. This one is really neat. Beautiful composition. The blending of the three images is pretty well done!
Hats Off!
Robert

PS . I note you took some time off. I hope you will be more active in the coming weeks (^_^).

Yes, I like it, Tom. Good pp-work and de final picture is very good. I like the pov and compo. Well done.

Best regards,

Don

Hi tom,

Superbe composition en panoramique.
Marie

Hello Tom,
Hours well spent. This is a fantastic panorama stitched seamlessly! Excellent colors, contrast and lighting. Very well done all around. Congrats!

-JD

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